Making Criticism a Crime: Criminal Libel and Free Speech
On November 1st, hear Lisa Taylor and Jamie Cameron speak about criminal libel and free speech at Ryerson University in Toronto! Criminal libel is an archaic law that permits the […]
The Canadian Constitution Foundation Law & Freedom Conference
The Law & Freedom Conference explores the most important issues in Canadian constitutional law today—and their impacts on human freedom. Don’t miss BCCLA Counsel Grace Pastine’s panel on physician-assisted dying at 1:45 […]
11th National Symposium on Class Actions
The BCCLA is proud to announce that our Litigation Director Grace Pastine will be a featured panelist at the 11th National Symposium on Class Actions hosted by Osgoode Hall Law […]
Spur Festival: “Who Owns Our Secrets? Privacy, Intellectual Property and Free Speech in the Digital Age”
The Orwellian idea that “If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself,” rings uncomfortably true in a world of NSA spying and CSEC […]
Pathways to Privacy Research Symposium
The BCCLA’s policy director, Michael Vonn, will be featuring as a panelist at the Pathways to Privacy Research Symposium, presented by the CCLA and other co-applicants. The symposium theme is […]
International Privacy Day Panel Discussion
Toronto area members: join us for a panel discussion featuring the BCCLA’s own policy director Micheal Vonn on International Privacy Day. The event will begin with a keynote address by Ontario’s Information and Privacy […]
RightsWatch Conference: Internet freedom- enabling repression or revolution?
BCCLA Policy Director Micheal Vonn will speak as a part of the 2013 RightsWatch Conference in a panel about the liberatory or oppressive potential of the internet. Â For more […]
Learning from the Missing Women’s Commission of Inquiry
Amidst growing calls for a national inquiry into missing and murdered Aboriginal women in Canada, York University’s Osgoode Hall Law School will be hosting a discussion on what form such […]
The Politics of Surveillance Workshop 2012
This invitational workshop will bring together surveillance/privacy advocates and academics to review the status of current policy issues related to surveillance in Canada and to consider possible courses of action. […]
Surveillance and Privacy
Increasingly, Canada’s approach to privacy has become “If you’ve got nothing to hide, then you’ve got nothing to fear”. Privacy advocates, and those who are concerned about the unfettered intrusion […]
